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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
7
In a tense parlor scene Dallas Wainwright rejects Gibbs and questions Alwyn Bennett about wealth and purpose. Mrs Bennett recounts Cynthia Garrison’s family tragedy caused by a financier, urging Dallas to seek real achievement beyond money while Alwyn pledges to prove himself worthy.
Charlton high school pupils debated whether William H. Taft would be a more able president than Charles F. Hughes. the Taft side lost. Milford board of selectmen issued licenses Thursday night with O'Brien and Donavan as new firms. Sterling plans a new hotel for John H. Coughlin to replace last winter’s burned property. G H Desmond of Boston drew plans in English cottage style. The town will issue 11 licenses to sell alcohol despite a census showing over 12 000 residents. Holliston entertainment slide sale for St Mary’s church drew large crowds Thursday.
Worcester had the largest February building loss of any US city with 87 percent down from normal, compared with an average 33 percent across 52 cities. Clinton captain Robert McNeil of Company K Ninth Regiment resigns to Col Donavon.
Waltham The Waltham Business Men's Association prepares for merchants' week beginning May 16 and concluding the following week.
A local board of selectmen voted against pony express business though agent Penny Gardette of American Express sought the privilege. In Webster the Navy Department agreed to loan guns to Lyon Post for decorating a soldiers monument. Auto accident in Malden injures no one seriously when a Rich car hits a baby carriage carrying a seven month old child. Civil war veterans and companions gathered in Leominster for the Worcester County Grand Army Women’s Relief Corps meeting. In Uxbridge Jeffries Demers, 22, drank ammonia in a suicide attempt. a stomach pump saved him from crossing the river.
EAST DOUGLAS eight teachers at the East Douglas schoolhouse gave pupils a new lesson Friday by sending them to clean the yard. ATHOL James Clarke of North Dana was paid off Friday and went to Athol on a shopping trip. He met a gypsy fortune teller who allegedly charged him 44 dollars after a brief session. HUDSON A reception for Miss Ruth Morse of Roxbury was held at Miss Theresa McNallys home 45 Rutland Street Friday evening. About 20 friends attended. The program included whist singing and instrumental music with refreshments. Those present included James Goggin Marlboro Winnie Collins John H Manning Marlboro Theresa McNally Charles Finnerty May Sullivan William O Donnell Pearl Saunders Roy Johnson Irene Sheridan James Feeney Rachel McNally Martin McNally Bernice Lovett Maynard Lena Hickey Gleasondale Sharon Howie Cummings Clinton Sadie Morrison Clinton. SOUTH FRAMINGHAM Town Counsel Walter Adams says the board of selectmen have the right
Sterling Inn Co has been incorporated with certificates filed April 1. Capital stock totals 50000 dollars with 100 dollar shares. Incorporators are J H Coughlin Mrs Ann Coughlin and W H Deitzman.
Miss Elizabeth McNamara, rapidly gaining fame as a singer, will appear in a Whitman production of Creation this Monday evening. In Lynn, Rev. John D. Pickles of the M B Church invited Lynn Bar Tenders Union members to his farewell sermon for those in the liquor trade Sunday. The city will be connected with the water wagon Friday. The union replied with thanks but said they were too busy hunting for jobs to attend.
The Woman's Guild of St. Paul's presented the operetta Love and Whist as a charitable event in Hopkinton with a daytime and evening program. Proceeds supported local church activities and community projects.
Edward Mountain Gardner won first in the Leominster Gardner Fitchburg interscholastic speakers contest with A Yankee in Love. Carroll Duggan Milford and Isabel Dennet Fitchburg earned prizes, Rowena Harris Leominster second girls prize. Waltham promotes Geo L Johnson to permanent chief of the fire department.
Rev Rocco Petraca of the Church of the Sacred Heart cites letters from anarchists and recalls Milford van Kaey as a model community if properly governed. He describes a Milford band placing red flags of anarchy in homes on Holy Thursday to express hostility to God and government.
A burglar familiar with church interiors looted St Anthony Church and St Casimir on Monday, stealing sacred vestments and rifling poor boxes. The incident targets Worcester parish properties and patron offerings.
The church of St Anthony in Fitchburg, built by the Italian community, was dedicated Sunday by Bishop Beaven of Springfield. In Clinton, the senior class of the high school departed Saturday for a trip to Washington.
The Florence Automatic Oil Stove uses no wicks or valves to produce a clean blue flame with heat fully controllable by a dial lever. Built of steel for strong support, it saves time and fuel and concentrates heat for cooking. Demonstrations at Central Oil and Gas Stove Co. 17 Washington St Boston. Gardner Mass factory.
Hudson Concord Maynard car service lists departure times from multiple towns. Buses run from 6.30 AM to 11.00 PM with some limited Maynard to Westvale Turnout and Maynard to Hudson trips. Special cars possible and schedule subject to change without notice.
The Lowell Acton and Maynard road runs cars from Maynard to So Acton hourly from 6 a m to 11 p m with half hour intervals. Sunday service starts at 7 30 from Maynard and 7 45 from So Acton. additional morning times run from 6 15 to 11 15. Connections at So Acton link to west trains. Special charters available via the company office Maynard with telephone connection. John W Ogden Superintendent Maynard Mass.
Train departures from Marlboro to Boston Southboro and South Framingham updated. Timetables list Marlboro and Boston departures, including Sunday runs, with connections to Northboro Fitchburg and Conway lines. Framingham to Marlboro and Sudbury routes show multiple daily departures, plus Sunday times and night services.
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